Sentence examples for ordinary plain from inspiring English sources

That flour should, I think, be ordinary plain flour – ours tends to be lower in protein than American flours, which makes it ideal for muffin-making.

Potato and gluten-free flour will make the batter light and crisp, but you can also use ordinary plain flour (just make sure the batter is mixed well before using, because it separates quickly).

Foolscap because he wants it tightly written, as contrasted with the loose quality of 'Travels with My Aunt' which allowed him to break with precedent and use ordinary plain paper.

"Diverting police time to investigate Bloody Sunday soldiers or crimes from the Troubles seems a waste when the priority today should surely be tracking down the tiny, but dangerous, attacks from dissident IRA groups, as well as facilitating ordinary, plain community safety," he said.

Life suddenly seems to have a wholeness, a superhuman intensity that lifts us high above the ordinary plain of existence.

According to police, some of the catfish profiles have typical seductive photos of attractive women in lingerie or bikinis, but they've also had cases where "it was just an ordinary, plain-looking person, not someone or a photo that was all glammed up".

Second, at yesterday's hearing, former WaMu Chief Risk Officer James Vanasek acknowledged that his bank would not have been able to wreak so much economic destruction without the repeal of Glass-Steagall, which barred any mixing between complex Wall Street securities dealings and ordinary, plain-vanilla banking.

We are just regular people who go to baseball games and basketball games, as ordinary and plain as can be".

Although from the outside the Tyng house appears quite ordinary, its plain facade graced with a bright pair of tall parlor-floor windows, the slate-tiled mansard roof flanked by two glass doors with chamfered corners immediately sets it apart from its neighbors.

Notice that the professor's sentence needn't include some implicit ceteris-paribus clause in order for his utterance to be true; as this example illustrates, in ordinary conversations, plain old strict generalization sentences are not always used to cover the full range of actual cases.

What they earn is ordinary income, plain and simple.